Download the free edition of RenderMan 24
Get the latest Non-Commercial edition of Pixar's renderer for personal use and plugin creation.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
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Sketchbook is no longer owned by Autodesk
Veteran free digital sketching app for Mac, PC, iOS and Android gets spun off to a new independent firm.
Friday, June 25th, 2021
Epic Games buys ArtStation
Top online portfolio service will stay open to non-games artists and Unreal Engine users. Sales fees on ArtStation Marketplace reduced.
Sunday, May 2nd, 2021
Free Cesium for Unreal plugin creates a virtual Earth in UE4
New open-source plugin streams real-world geospatial data into UE4 from platforms like Cesium ion.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
Check out neat iOS camera mocap app VirtuCamera
Handy $5 app turns your iPhone or iPad into a real-time virtual camera controller for Maya or Blender.
Monday, March 22nd, 2021
Tech focus: Nuke's AIR machine learning framework
Neat toolset lets VFX artists train their own neural networks to automate repetive tasks like roto.
Thursday, March 18th, 2021
Epic buys RealityCapture creator Capturing Reality
Photogrammetry app used for the Megascans library to be 'integrated into the UE4 ecosystem'. Prices cut.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
Houdini Engine for UE4 and Unity now free to all users
Houdini Engine plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine now free for larger studios, not just indie artists.
Friday, February 26th, 2021
Chaos rolls out Chaos Cosmos
New online library of architectural 3D models is optimised for V-Ray and Chaos Vantage. Free to users of selected versions of V-Ray 5.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Foundry relaxes plugin restrictions on Nuke Indie
$499/year edition of Nuke for indie artists and freelancers now works with OFX plugins like Neat Video.
Friday, September 25th, 2020
Foundry releases Nuke Indie
'Lightly restricted' new $499/year edition of Nuke Studio is aimed at freelance compositors. Find out how it compares to the full version.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
Otoy launches RNDR
Innovative 'distributed GPU render network' lets OctaneRender users earn credits by making their PCs available to others for rendering.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Maxon and Red Giant merge
Updated: Maxon's merger with the effects tools developer is now officially complete. Key Red Giant executives join the Maxon board.
Wednesday, February 19th, 2020